George Santos Tries To Delay Fraud Sentencing With 'Pants On Fire' Podcast Reason

But prosecutors aren't buying the disgraced Republican former congressman's claim.

NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced former congressman George Santos has asked a New York judge to delay his sentencing on federal fraud charges until the summer so he can pay off more than half a million dollars in fines by making more episodes of his recently launched podcast “Pants on Fire.”

But prosecutors, in their response Tuesday, dismissed the New York Republican’s promises of a financial boon as “extremely speculative” and derided the program’s title as a “tone-deaf and unrepentant reference to the crimes he committed.”

They also cast doubt on his claim of having little more than $1,000 in liquid assets as they argued for the sentencing to proceed as scheduled on Feb. 7.

Prosecutors say the 36-year-old Santos has earned more than $400,000 from appearances on Cameo, the video-sharing website, and another $400,000 from a new documentary since he was expelled from the U.S. House in December 2023. Santos was just the sixth House member in the chamber’s history to be ousted by colleagues.

His earnings, prosecutors said, come on top of the roughly $174,000 taxpayer-funded salary he received during his 11-month stint on Capitol Hill.